Mistral Medium 3.5vsGrok‑2
Mistral Medium 3.5 | Grok‑2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 128B | — |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 256k | — |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | $1.50 | — |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | $7.50 | — |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 77.6% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | SpaceXAI |
| Release date | Apr 29 2026 | Aug 14 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Grok‑2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a verified first-party API price: $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Grok‑2. Grok‑2 shipped 623 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is open weight, while Grok‑2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and Grok‑2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.